Thanks for support of Buddy Walk

On Saturday, Oct. 28 the Southern New Mexico Down Syndrome Families (SNMDSF) celebrated its 10th Annual Buddy Walk. Many stories have been collected over the past decade. Some would bring smiles and laughter, others tears. As one example, in 2011 a local family had lost their baby with Down syndrome after 67 days of dealing with serious health issues. They were a large close family, and our Buddy Walk that year was about the same time as the baby’s funeral (name withheld). Those who came to Las Cruces from all over the country for the memorial services decided to participate in the Las Cruces Buddy Walk in his honor. We must have had walkers from 10 different states that year!

Special thanks to Sheryl Duran & TMNT Las Cruces and Amanda Fackler for our trailer/truck float, and Joseph Lopez for loaning us bales of hay. Two organizations we wish to thank for helping at the Buddy Walk are include Gamma Iota Sigma from NMSU and Respiratory Therapy Club at DACC. Finally, we want to thank our walkers and our guests of honor – those with Down syndrome, who make our walk a family reunion.

Tim Query

Las Cruces

Sun-News should check facts of contributors

On the opinion page of 11/2/17, I read that Robert Mueller is wasting their time by leading the “so called mainstream media” into rabbit holes looking for collusion between Trump and Putin.

But Madeline Sanchez, what if Robert Mueller found down one of those rabbit holes the bones of Jimmy Hoffa, and stuffed in his bare grinning teeth a Hillary e-mail confessing that she and Bill killed Hoffa because he endorsed Richard Nixon in 1968? What a gold mine that would be for you!

That’s all a joke. Except for the Hoffa book, I made it all that up. But Madeline, my joke is better than yours because it’s funnier, succinct, more original, and has at least one true fact. Hoffa is dead.

In my opinion, Madeline Sanchez’s opinions are not worth the ink and paper they cost, but as Voltaire says, “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it.” But, Madeline when you make a joke you have no right to make up your own facts, or worse, parrot the faux Fox facts made up by Donald Trump, or Sean Hannity.

Sun-News check all my facts and all the facts of all your contributors.

Tom Mattson

Las Cruces

What happened to lights for NM 404?

Fellow commuters going to east El Paso, what happened to the lights for NM 404 the past few days?

It appears that the lights for the off-ramps to NM 404 at I-10 have been altered recently. The east- and west-bound lights are too long and all of that traffic fills the bridge by the time the off-ramps light turns green. There is nowhere for left-turning cars to go on either side of the bridge.

A lot of semis use this route too, and they may sit multiple cycles with no movement for the cars piling up on the off-ramps. Regular vehicles can only squeeze one car in per cycle. Someone needs to re-review this intersection. This just added 25 minutes to my commute from Las Cruces to El Paso.